Did Trump or Vance get to Danielle Smith? Why her flip on immigrants in a year?

[applegrove]

Reposting this letter from Smith to PM Trudeau asking for more immigrants
She can't request more immigrants and then say immigrants are the problem
I wish someone in Canadian media would ask her about this
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.alberta.ca/system/files...

— Canadian In Alberta (@canadianinalberta.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T14:47:33.383Z

Background:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/reaction-alberta-danielle-smith-fall-referendum-9.7099505

[Spazito]

1. It's all about the upcoming budget...

She is using immigrants as her excuse for the upcoming deficit the budget will reveal. As a trump acolyte she's quite happy to be the vile hypocrite she is and always has been.

[applegrove]

2. I also think she wants to set the precedent of people

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not getting public health insurance but having to buy private insurance for healthcare. Doug Ford seems to be trying to privatize medicine and colleges (by reducing grants). Does Doug Ford know this just makes Canada more vulnerable to US?

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-bell-ca-rvc3&source=android-browser&q=doug+ford+privatizing+on+health+care#lfId=ChxjMe

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. She's an opportunist, that's all

She put her finger in the wind, and sensed the anti-immigrant sentiment rising in Canada, something both Carney and Trudeau before him began to take notice of and shifted official Liberal policy on.

Smith, of course, is taking it even further, using immigrant scapegoating to fuel separatism and, she hopes, keep her in power.